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8:18 AM

yaawn

Q: Secure Server after configuration

hello

one one here?

any one here?

Ben

8:33 AM

In body, not in mind though :-)

It's earrrrly here :(

ntechi

Hii

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Recently I purchased a VPS from intovps.com, And first time I configured a fully unmanaged VPS through ssh comands. My website is working into it, properly. Now I just want to know how to secure it? I started my process of configuring VPS in this way:- Installed LAMP, phpmyadmin, restored the b...

Hello

i was wondering how to configure .htaccess in godaddy

@ntechi, pretty much all the standard 'secure my linux' box questions on serverfault apply.

inside a subdomain

@ben its early, its cold and i could use the day off... not because i need it but because i frankly just fancy a lie-in.

Q: .htaccess with godaddy not working in subdomain

8:38 AM

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Hi, i have a site uploaded to shared subdomain (which is inside a folder). and htaccess is not working. please get details from here. EDIT::copied from stack overflow Hi, i uploaded as website to a subdomain, and every page is not working except the front page please check it here. what could ...

.htaccess

@ntechi, set strong passwords, disable any unnecessary services, make sure you have a tested and working automatic backup system. Make sure logging is enabled. Subscribed to security mail lists for any web-apps you install, so you will be notified to update them, when a new vulnerability has been announced. Adjust the firewall configuration to minimize access to any administration interfaces, and so on.

Ben

That sounds nice @RobertMoir!

Book me one of those too

ok... scheduling's a bit shot though, mine appears to be scheduled for Not Going To Happen

Ben

At least I didn't have to scrape the car this morning I guess...

@ntechi, there are hundreds of questions that cover various aspects of the subject on SF, and security.se.

8:41 AM

You now join us at the final act of "Mr Shotgun goes to websense's HQ" in which our anti-hero discovers that websense have recategorised every major artist's website as "social networking" on the morning that the art department were doing a major "thing" about art websites.

halfway through setting up split-server DHCP for 78 scopes...

I need some entertainment :(

you started that yesterday pauska, still going I guess

Yes. It's extremely time consuming.

we did that a while ago when we move into the new building and network... no matter how hard you try you end up with a few subnets that aren't quite right because of some typo :-|

I have to heavily restrain myself everytime I go on superuser to try and find something. Some of the questions there drive me nuts.

8:46 AM

@RobertMoir: That's exactly my concern aswell.. the good thing here is that all options except default router is shared across the scopes

well that helps

@RobertMoir: I'm double-checking that default GW is correct now while doing split setup

yup

btw, any idea if windows requires a default domain entry?

(this isnt AD, im setting up the guest networks)

The default is used for the search path. So you can do ping 'blah' and have it automatically translate to 'blah.example.org'. If you don't care about th at, then don't add one.

8:49 AM

yeah, theres no usage for it here

hello

hello

i was wondering if you could help me with htaccess configuration

could you please check my question

explorex: Please read the widely avaible htaccess documentation on the internet (google). Besides, GoDaddy has a help center.

You've also asked a question on the main site, wait for answers there

okay i will

8:53 AM

@explorex, FYI, many of us really strongly dislike .htaccess questions. You could take a few minutes to clean up your question though. Make sure everything is spelled properly. Use capitals at the start of your sentences and so on. I really don't know much about .htaccess.

okay i will do my best

BTW, I don't mean to be snobby or anything, I am far from perfect.

Also, have you tried a really simple Rewrite rule to see that things are working? Why start with the simplest rule you can use get that working and then build on it a little at a time.

i dont know i am getting error the index.php was not found on /~mainsite/submodian/site/

where it was supposed to be

please check error at websmartus.com/demo/globaltours/public_html/about-us

websmartus.com/demo/globaltours/public_html/test.php contains the absolute file path of the index.php

also php info websmartus.com/demo/globaltours/public_html/phpinfo.php

I'm sorry man, we're not a help desk

work on your question on the main site instead

tombull89

I suppose it does exist?

about-us is a subfolder of public_html, yes?

9:07 AM

no it's get routed to index.php

by .htaccess

tombull89

ah right, .htaccess file are funny thing so i think you'll be best off waiting for things to pick up on the site for an answer

okay .... i have do something i should have done many days back

anyway thanks

Iain

good ${time_of_day}

tombull89

hey @Iain...look like your request hasn't happened yet

Iain

indeed

9:24 AM

ahh first sales call of the day. No I'm not interested in Mr Salesman's "ethernet internet product", I'm fairly sure that I'm better off remaining on a 1Gb primary JANET connection

9:44 AM

@Iain: How about a regexp greeting? .*ing all.

A: Cheap web hosting that supports php/mysql

9:56 AM

spammer

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actually, two copies

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A: Cheap web hosting that supports php/mysql

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morning gentlemen

spam again:

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A: Best hosting provider

You can host your site here http://www.thewebpole.com/twp/domain-web-hosting/ .Here i found the hosting service at cheap price.Prices are starting from $3.99/month.If you need host your site here.

Bah, only just 10am and I'm 3 flags down already..

just used four, jesus

Q: DNS is not recognised by my network

I'll sort them erik

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I have recently switched my dns server to a new hosting provider. I received a new IP and such.. I have created a new file on my www.example.com/newfile.html on my computer it does not exist,however if I check it on another computer (outside my network) it shows it has switched over. Can any...

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seen this one, it's a "walk slowly away from the keyboard' job

morning people by the way

10:05 AM

yeah, there's so many things you can say on that one... not enough time to cover them all :D

lynxman, if you run out of flags just come on here and list them ok

if I'm around anyway

I wish we could just agree to auto-close every "what is the {best, cheapest, fastest] web hosting provider for {php, mysql, videos} as subjective

put it on meta

its just spam bait, same for ssl cert ones too

@Chopper3 Thank you, I'll do so :)

wow, user got all upset about me providing an answer, go figure...

thought that if you asked a question you would be open to answers :D

10:21 AM

which question?

oh hell, just remembered, I'm on a THREE hour conference call today, not one of the ones you contribute either, just 2.5 hours of PR spin only then do I get 30 mins to answer questions etc. bloody hell what a dull day...

Sam

@Chopper3 sounds like a world of fun

yeah :(

ouch

Bonjour

it's a press call so I can tell you right now who'll ask what questions, I could just write the answers now and go for a walk instead

hello cakemox

10:28 AM

@Chopper3 ouch

@Chopper3 the rsync attributes one, I've given a honest answer and the guy peed all over me, gah

just deleted my reply and let someone else handle this artist

at least I have one of those dect wireless headsets that make me look like a call-centre-monkey - so I can go for a poop if I get bored

got a link?

Sam

i've got one of them, there brilliant for long calls. I even reckon I could make it to the sandwich shop next door during a call at lunch :)

I finally decide to order a new laptop, and Intel's goof has delayed orders for 2+ months. Dammit.

@Sam I can walk around the gardens but if won't reach the beach :(

@Cakemox that's a big ouch indeed

10:30 AM

@Cakemox But the new macbooks aren't out yet :)

@Cakemox, better you find out now that just after you ordered one, though?

@Chopper3 I'm not a fan OSX, so Apple's offering would have to be pretty slick to justify the extra cost.

it was only an issue for 3Gb SATA stuff, just get a 6Gb disk instead

@Cakemox only kidding, bit of an apple-nazi myself

haha - just joined this call and there's a livemeeting of all the slides etc, someone doesn't know but his video camera is on and anyone who wants to can watch him picking his nose

Q: how to create a A record in VPS hosting using putty for vps.abc.com

The end of this question is quite cracking

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Hi, I bought a vps hosting for one month to do a test drive. When i registered they also registered vps.mysite.com which is now pointing to a different ip(i cheched by pinging). This vps is just plain without any extra bundles so no control panel(cPanel). How to create A record using Putty. Is ...

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@Chopper3 They canceled all orders until the issue is fixed, regardless of the drive you choose.

10:37 AM

the machines are out there though, just most retailers will be returning them to vendors obviously

It would be quite funny to buy one and them sue Intel

if you have the time and the will to do so

someone will, in that town in texas where everyone goes to sue

@Chopper3 I'm always extra-careful on the VCs. Not so much for nose-picking, but for making big ol' WTF faces when someone says something ridiculous.

I'll just have to be patient. I hate being patient. I want my new equipment NOW. I'd buy local if it weren't for the jacked up swiss keyboards.

years ago I used to do a weekly video conference with my boss in the US, it was when you had to go to a special room to do this, for a laugh I went early one day, took off my shirt but put my tie back on, the video conf manager then video'd me like that for a few seconds and half way through the call inserted 1 or 2 frames of that video into the stream - you could see my boss flinch momentarily, must have though they were going insane

@Chopper3: I got the elitebook 2540p 12" with SSD/3G today

it's super sweet!

10:43 AM

@pauska I'm jealous

Nice! That raises the question: is it ethical to toy with the sanity of colleagues? I'm going to email the local HR manager.

oh neat

@Cakemox everything's ok if you don't get caught

Doesn't that imply that it is unethical?

I'm no expert on the subject really, my moral compass points due west

@Cakemox light sanity manipulation is a constitutional right ;)

Q: How to run a c program as a simple server like apache in my vps hosting

10:51 AM

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Hi, I like playing with sockets. I have written c programs for windows which listens in different ports. But i havent written for linux yet i wrote lots of php code so it will not take more than 4 hours to create a new c socket program for linux. Once the program is ready i will upload it to so...

client-server

wow - just wow

same guy as the previous question

scary

Iain

belongs on SO

Jacob

11:07 AM

Hello guys

hey

@Chopper3 I'm calling the Moir rule of Walking Away from that one.

seen his latest one?

C socketS?

had to kill it

11:22 AM

oh. push technology

yeah

is this vgv8 posing as an indian?

may as well have been about BBQ recipes - it was that vague

sadly not, I've done the digging, this dude's supposedly a pro web designer

Q: How to backup millions of small files?

god help us all

Jacob

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Hi, What is the best way to backup millions of small files in a very small time period? We have less than 5 hours to backup a file system which contains around 60 million files which are mostly small files. We have tried several solutions such as richcopy, 7z, rsync and all of them seems to hav...

backup

11:29 AM

"What is the best way to backup millions of small files in a very small time period"

Forget it.

<bofh>You'll have to take the platters out of the drives and photocopy them</bofh>

ah...but then again... {press F5}

I'd probably set up glusterfs replication, then backup the replica.

hah

@Chopper3 Same difference.

:)

You go to NetApp, I go to GlusterFS.. this is because i've never worked anywhere with a high enough budget to afford a NetApp Filer

a friend of mine has a PB scale netapp array, and raves about thin provisioning.

i just sulk off into LVM and hide

11:33 AM

I love all the things netapps do - and have lots of the bloody things - but hate the way they do it - god awful architecture and interface

I'm the other way, have the luxury of fixing problems with cash, that said I also get little leeway in delivering big complex systems on-time and right first time - swings and roundabouts

jealous

I like the "throw money at it" and get something that works solution paradigm